In “The fable of
crossing the river by feeling the pebbles” Basmah tells the story of The
Jerry Tribe of Catfish that roam valleys of the world, surveying, mining lost
data, and redrawing maps through reading sediments. Their knowledge rests on
the influence of the three great sculptors of the ecosystem: water, wind, and
time.

The fable speaks of a vanished
artifact, a monument said to exist in Wadi Rum in AlUla that
documented the Jirry’s methodology. What survives here is all the artist claims as proof of
its existence, said to have journeyed across Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and
finally the Arabian Peninsula, or so the story goes.